11 years ago
Posted on 09th Jan 2015 by Admin

Class 4 Spellings – to be tested on Friday 16th January

Group 2

Making plurals by adding ‘es’

Group 3

‘aw’ spelling

Phase 6 phonics group

suffiix ‘tion’ – used if the root word ends in ‘t’ or ‘te’

Group 4 & 5

suffiix ‘tion’ – used if the root word ends in ‘t’ or ‘te’

hero

heroes

match

matches

vehicle

vehicles

twitch

twitches

compass

compasses

crawl

claw

yawn

prawn

lawn

shawl

drawn

flawless

Tricky Words:

also

always

invent

invention

inject

injection

complete

completion

hesitate

hesitation

invent

invention

inject

injection

complete

completion

hesitate

hesitation

11 years ago
Posted on 09th Jan 2015 by Admin

Weekly News 9th January 2015

It was lovely to see everyone back at school this week and hopefully you all had a good Christmas and New Year!

Clubs

Please keep an eye on the website for up-to-date information on clubs. Football Club will restart once the nights get a bit lighter which will hopefully be in the next couple of weeks.

Dogs

Please could we remind parents and family members that dogs should not be brought on to the playground at any time. Thank you in advance for your cooperation with this.

Calendar

We still have some calendars available, if you didn’t manage to buy one before Christmas. Please could any outstanding monies for calendars taken/reserved before Christmas be paid by the end of next week. Thank you.

Letters home this week:

Scholastic book magazine – all children

Change for Life leaflet – all children

Have a nice weekend.

Mrs Johnson

11 years ago
Posted on 08th Jan 2015 by Admin

Class 5 Spring Term News

The children all appear to have had a good Christmas and are settling back to work well.

They seem to be enjoying our new topic ‘Stars and Stripes’ and hopefully they should be able to name and locate several American states after Thursday’s afternoon of map work!

I’ve attached our class newsletter below giving you an outline of some of the areas we will be covering this term. Please do not hesitate to speak to myself or another member of staff in Class 5 if you have any questions at all.

class 5 newsletter spring 2015

Many thanks.

Mrs Natalie Johnson

11 years ago
Posted on 08th Jan 2015 by Admin

Year 6 SATs Booster

As in previous years, we will be running an after-school booster club in preparation for Year 6 SATs and this will start in the next couple of weeks,as soon as a suitable day of the week has been decided on. The SATs this year will take place during the week starting Monday 11th May.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to speak to me.

Thanks for your support.

Mrs Natalie Johnson

11 years ago
Posted on 08th Jan 2015 by Admin

Class 5 spellings to be tested 16.01.15

YELLOW

GREEN

PURPLE

RED

-tion (and –ation) suffix

correct

correction

direct

direction

reflect

reflection

pollute

pollution

reduce

reduction

pollution

petition

projection

transition

attraction

distraction

reduction

construction

competition

migration

educate

education

create

creation

translate

translation

dictate

dictation

migrate

migration

educate

education

complicate

complication

improvise

improvisation

humiliate

humiliation

assassinate

assassination

11 years ago
Posted on 08th Jan 2015 by Admin

The case of the missing fish!

Today Class 1 discovered an abandoned dinghy on the playground! All the children were very excited and talked about where it might have come from and shared lots of great ideas. They also found a letter from the King Penguin asking them to help him and the penguins to find the missing fish…

The children thought they could help the penguins by making some fish and sending them back on the boat so they don’t starve.

Year 1 children wrote detailed letters explaining how the class were going to help.

11 years ago
Posted on 07th Jan 2015 by Admin

Polar clothes

Class 1 have had another busy day and all worked very hard. This morning we found a suitcase full of clothes in the role play area and talked about what kind of places we would wear these. We talked about the Arctic and Antarctic to see what they had remembered from yesterday. The Reception children used collage materials to make a warm outfit and the Year 1 children designed their own outfit adding labels and sentences.

11 years ago
Posted on 06th Jan 2015 by Admin

Welcome back Class One!

Class One have settled back into class well and have worked hard together today.

Our new topic for this term is ‘Poles Apart’. We will learn about the Arctic and Antarctic regions and many features of both of these areas. I have attached our medium term planning document for you to see the types of activities the children will be doing this term.

I have also attached a topic poster to give you an overview of additional activities and learning opportunities that will take place this term.

Today the children enjoyed sharing their Christmas holiday news with each other. They produced written work, models, paintings and drawings to show and tell what they had been up to over the festive break.

Letters and Sounds was a busy session – we focused on the ‘ure’ sound found in words such as sure, pure, cure. Some children explored the split ‘o-e’ sound and how it differs to the ‘oe’ sound. For example, in words such as awoke, alone, explode.

The children spent some time this afternoon looking at informative powerpoints about the Arctic and the Antarctic regions. I have attached the files so that you can look at these with your children. They are a brief introduction to our new topic.

The children worked in pairs to decide upon four topic related things they would like to find out about over the next few weeks. Some of these include arctic animals, such as foxes and hares. They also want to find out about how people live in the polar regions and polar expeditions.

6thJan2015 Introduction to Poles Apart

topic web

topic poster

6thJan2015 Letters and Sounds

arctic powerpoint intro

Antarctica powerpoint intro

11 years ago
Posted on 06th Jan 2015 by Admin

Welcome back Class 2!

The children have had a brilliant first day back!

We started with a Letters and Sounds lesson to see what we could remember from before the holidays and then focussed on the alternative spelling of the ‘oa’ phoneme. The children came up with lots of words that have the ‘oa’ phoneme present e.g. boat, flow, smoke, dough, etc.

Class 2 then had a Numeracy lesson on doubling numbers. We recognised that we have to add the same number to make it a double and used dominoes to help us count. Some children had beads to help them double greater numbers and worked in pairs to work these out.

Before lunch Mrs Tan came for Ocarina, the children were very impressive with their behaviour and knowledge today and I enjoyed hearing them play the tune they learnt.

After lunch, I introduced our new topic ‘Towns and Country’, we made a mind map of all the ways we could recognise a town and how we could recognise the countryside, the children had some fantastic ideas!

We finally finished the day with PE. The children had fun in the hall with Jack, making up their own games with the equipment provided.

11 years ago
Posted on 06th Jan 2015 by Admin

Class Spring Letter

Dear Parents/Carers,

Welcome back! I hope you have all had a lovely Christmas and New Year and have enjoyed the break. I just wanted to let you know some key bits of information about this term.

PE – Wednesdays and Fridays – Please could children ensure they have both indoor and outdoor kit in school as at this time in the year our lessons are very much weather dependent!

Stottesdon – During this term we will be holding a meeting about Stottesdon to discuss any questions you might have. We will let you know a date for this meeting in due course.

Class 4 Topic

Our main topic for this term is a geography topic called ‘Our Kingdom’. We will be doing a study of the UK looking at both physical and human features. We will spend time looking at different cities and regions of the UK as well as comparing different regions. We will complete art work linked to this relating to maps as well as looking at things people associate with the UK. If you would like to support your child with this topic at home they would benefit from becoming used to using an atlas or a globe to locate countries, continents and lines of latitude, becoming familiar with the four countries that make up the United Kingdom and key physical and human features associated with this – landmarks, mountains, rivers etc. We will also be covering the Water Cycle within this topic.

Other ways in which you can support your child at home are with handwriting practise, spelling practise and the opportunity to read and have a go at writing a variety of texts. Before Christmas, we were focusing on how to extend our sentences by using conjunctions such as because, so, although, despite, however, then, when. Children could practise writing sentences which include these at home. In terms of supporting your child with maths, it is beneficial to keep learning and practising times tables. Practising written addition and subtraction methods will also help them.

If you have any questions please feel free to come and speak to me at the end of a school day.

Thank you for your continued support.